Hat renovating machine



May 10, 1932. G V, RHODES www2 HAT RENOVATING MAHINE Filed June 25, 1928 @ear e ifo d NVENTOR ATTORNEY Cil Patented May 10, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GEORGE V. RHODES, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR TO RHODES ELECTRIC HAT-MAN INC., 0F SEATTLE,

WASHINGTON, A CORPORATION HAT RENOVATING- MACHINE Application led June 25,

This invention relates to a hat renovating machine, the general obj ect of the invention being to provide means for supporting a hat block on a motor driven shaft in such a manner that the block can be readily removed Vtherefrom by a straight lifting action, while causing the block to remain on the shaft while the hat is being removed therefrom by liftlng first the front and then the rear of the This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing my invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like 0r corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:-

Figure l is a sectional view through a hat block showing the means for connecting it with its shaft.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view of Figure l, with the shaft in section.

Referring in detail to the drawings, a drive shaft Gis rotatably supported and is provided with a reduced end having a pin 13 extending therethrough, with the ends of the latter projecting from the shaft. A thimble 14 is fastened to the lower face of a hat block 7 by screws 15 or the like. This thimble being provided with the internal notches 16 which will receive the ends of the pin when the block is placed over the reduced part of the shaft. This arrangement of parts will permit the block to be lifted from the shaft by a straight lifting action, but the block will be held to the shaft when a hat is being removed therefrom by first raising the front of the hat and then the rear of the hat so that the hat can be removed without distorting it and without pulling the block from the shaft in removing the hat. Of course, the block will rotate with the shaft through this pin connecton.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

1928. Serial No. 288,174.

It is to be understood that I may make changes in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall Within the scope of the appended claim.

Vhat I claim is A hat renovating machine comprising a vertical rotatable shaft, a hat block having a bearing for the shaft, means located below the upper end of the shaft and engaging said shaft and bearing for preventing rotation of the block on the shaft and adapted to release the block for rotation relative to the shaft upon upward movement of the block, said shaft fitting the walls of the bearing so that on removing a hat from the block by lifting said hat from first one side and then the other side thereof will cause the shaft and its bearing to bind and prevent separation of the block from the shaft.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature. 

